Twenty-two years ago, President Clinton established Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument for paleontological conservation. As the Trump administration shrinks its borders, that mission is jeopardized.

With a lot not on display, museums may not even know all that’s in their vast holdings.
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
September 17, 2018

New research uses pathology in dinosaur bones to look at predator-prey interactions in the fossil record.

The Spinosaurus was just one example of a dinosaur that roamed Africa hundreds of millions of years ago.
By Mike Bowler from Canada (Spinosaurus) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
February 21, 2018

With no identifiable body parts, it's hard to know how these fossilized creatures lived. A new approach models how the ocean's water would interact with their unique shapes – hinting at their lifestyle.

The stone flakes are flying, but what brain regions are firing?
Shelby S. Putt
May 8, 2017